{"id":134,"date":"2018-02-17T21:09:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T02:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/?p=134"},"modified":"2018-02-17T21:11:14","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T02:11:14","slug":"the-power-of-the-villagers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/second-blog-power\/the-power-of-the-villagers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of the Villagers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Orwell\u2019s <em>Shooting an Elephant<\/em>, I believe that the power was soundly in the hands of the villagers. This power came from three sources, each different and each affecting the way Orwell treated the elephant situation. The villagers\u2019 first source of power was their size. The large number of onlookers directly pressured the wary Orwell to shoot the elephant. We see this dynamic in Crick\u2019s basic definition of power: the ability of A to get B to do something that B does not want to do. Orwell felt dwarfed in comparison to the crowd and did not want to go against the desires of the \u201ctwo thousand people\u201d watching him (3). The second source of power came from ethnicity. The crowd members were all Burmese, while Orwell was British. This amplified the insecurity that he explained feeling earlier in the essay. The third source of the villagers\u2019 power came from British imperialism. Orwell explains that the Burmese had a strong disdain toward imperialism and often expressed this anger toward the British that lived in Burma. Even though Orwell was ashamed of this British rule, he was still British and, therefore, a symbol of imperialism. The large presence of cross villagers made Orwell feel guilty and more susceptible to influence. Ultimately, the villagers made Orwell feel small, different, and guilty. It would have been unrealistic to expect Orwell to go against the wishes of the crowd in the presence of all this pressure and frustration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Orwell\u2019s Shooting an Elephant, I believe that the power was soundly in the hands of the villagers. This power came from three sources, each different and each affecting the way Orwell treated the elephant situation. The villagers\u2019 first source &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/second-blog-power\/the-power-of-the-villagers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-second-blog-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/18s-psci204\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}